{"id":217788,"date":"2026-01-03T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/217788\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:14:08","slug":"no-9-michigan-state-falls-short-at-no-13-nebraska-58-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/217788\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 9 Michigan State Falls Short at No. 13 Nebraska, 58-56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LINCOLN, Neb. \u2013 No. 9 Michigan State had a 3-point lead late in the game and a chance to tie the game at the buzzer but fell short in a 58-56 loss to No. 13 Nebraska at Pinnacle Bank Arena on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Senior forward <a href=\"https:\/\/msuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/jaxon-kohler\/13631\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13631\" target=\"_blank\">Jaxon Kohler<\/a> had his fifth-straight double-double with 19 points and 11 rebounds to lead three players in double figures.<\/p>\n<p>Redshirt sophomore guard <a href=\"https:\/\/msuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/jeremy-fears-jr-\/13671\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13671\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Fears Jr.<\/a> had 14 points and seven assists and sophomore guard <a href=\"https:\/\/msuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/kur-teng\/16442\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16442\" target=\"_blank\">Kur Teng<\/a> added 12 points and five rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Records<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMichigan State falls to 12-2 overall and 2-1 in the Big Ten Conference, while Nebraska improves to 14-0 overall and 3-0 in league play.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_Hlk214656281\">Up Next<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMichigan State returns home for the first of three games at the Breslin Center, hosting Southern California on Monday, Jan. 5 (8:30 p.m., FS1).<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LINCOLN, Neb. \u2013 No. 9 Michigan State had a 3-point lead late in the game and a chance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-217788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}